(Detroit MC, Marshall Mathers)Birthplace: Kansas City Grammy Award-winning controversial hard-core rap artist who burst on the music scene with the release of 1999's The Slim Shady LP, a double…
Senate Years of Service: 1941-1943Party: DemocratDOXEY, Wall, a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born in Holly Springs, Marshall County, Miss., August 8, 1892; attended the…
GALLAGHER, Cornelius Edward, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J., March 2, 1921; attended the local schools of Bayonne; was graduated from John Marshall…
CLEVER, Charles P., a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico; born in Cologne, Prussia, February 23, 1830; attended the gymnasium of Cologne and the University of Bonn; immigrated to the…
DENT, George, a Representative from Maryland; born on his fatherâs estate, âWindsor Castle,â on the Mattawoman, Charles County, Md., in 1756; completed preparatory studies; during the…
HELVERING, Guy Tresillian, a Representative from Kansas; born in Felicity, Clermont County, Ohio, January 10, 1878; moved to Kansas in 1887 with his parents, who settled in Beattie, Marshall…
CALDERHEAD, William Alexander, a Representative from Kansas; born on a farm near New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, September 26, 1844; received private schooling and also attended the common…
(Encyclopedia) Khorana, Har Gobind, 1922–2011, American biochemist, b. Raipur (now in Pakistan), Ph.D. Univ. of Liverpool, 1948. He became a U.S. citizen in 1966, and was a professor at the…
(Encyclopedia) Katz, Alex, 1927–, American painter, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., studied Cooper Union, New York City (1946–49), Skowhegan School, Maine (1949–50). At a time when abstract expressionism captured…
(Encyclopedia) Collins, Wilkie (William Wilkie Collins), 1824–89, English novelist. Although trained as a lawyer, he spent most of his life writing. He produced some 30 novels, the best known of…
